Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:29:19 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:26:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:04:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > > We would like to see our Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver upstream > >> > > however we need help with this so we are releasing our Atheros 11n USB > >> > > Otus Linux driver under the ISC to the community. The goal is to work > >> > > with the community to help move this forward upstream. We are hoping > >> > > for community help and leadership on this (*cough*). > >> > > >> > Yeah! > >> > > >> > I'll grab this and put it in drivers/staging/ so it gets some users and > >> > more developers to help out with it. > >> > >> Ok, it seems to need some basic work to merely build properly on > >> "modern" kernel versions. > > > > Yeah, it works up to 2.6.24. > > This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream" > does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into > staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless > extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix, > use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version > of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have > for staging at this point.
Pretty much the only "bar" is "it compiles" :)
> Will you take this in, and expect patches for fixing it to use > standard wext and also report standard wireless statistic (yeap, this > is not there yet either).
Yes, I can do that.
> Joey is one user which reported the driver working now with the > compile fixes for newer kernels for 2.6.28-rc2 using the specific > version of wpa_supplicant for it. > > Joey can you test the for-upstream branch on otus git?
If someone can tell me what device this is for, I can try to go buy it so that I can verify changes I make don't drasticly break things.
I'll go try to get this tree into a buildable state and put it into staging tonight.
thanks,
greg k-h
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